Cover changes

Cider Mill Press has apparently decided to design new covers for a couple of the Determined Productions Peanuts books they’re reprinting. Friends coverI Need All the Friends I Can Get has a cover image that is taken from the inside of the American edition – one that was strongly altered when reprinted in the UK, as visitors to the Museum of Odd Peanuts Books should recall. Also scoring a new cover is ChristmasChristmas is Together Time cover is Together Time.

And while I have you here, let me remind you that just a few days remain to enter our contest and win yourself a set of Italian editions of The Complete Peanuts. We have some fine entries already, but we can always use more.

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The 75th Anniversary

I sat down to write a nice, long something on the 75th anniversary of Peanuts, because it’s a 75th anniversary, because this is the official marking of Peanuts being a cultural presence after the end of the strip for half as long as the strip was being made, and because …

Discounts
Big Fantagraphics sale and other Peanuts notes

One thing about the switch from the previous blog-by-mail system to the current one is that if there were multiple blog posts in a day, the old system would send a single digest email while the new one will send an email for each post. Not wanting to flood people’s …

Upcoming releases
The Essential Peanuts preview

The magazine People ran a preview of The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, the upcoming Peanuts retrospective written by my bud Mark Evanier. I’ll let you head there for the content, but I am going to talk on one part of the preview pointed to me by AAUGH Blog …